Event Details

An Evening with Alastair McIntosh, 24 March 2018

Chair: Prof Jolyon Mitchell, Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), New College, University of Edinburgh, where he is also Professor in Communications, Arts and Religion.

Venue: Sanctuary, Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL.Date: Saturday 24 March 2018.Time: Registration: 6.30pm-7pm. Event: 7pm-8.45pm.Event Description: If Christianity still matters, then why? McIntosh will argue that Jesus was an activist on a cosmic scale. He understood nonviolence as the power of love. Religion of the first and second millennia has, for the mostpart, compromised that vision. Third Millennium Christianity is a refreshed opening of the way. It seeks, perhaps with other faiths, to walk the mystical path and bring fresh hope into the world.

Alastair McIntosh is the author of Soil and Soul (2001) and Poacher’s Pilgrimage (2016). He is an honorary fellow of the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University and an honorary professor at Glasgow University.